A Gorman hangover

OK, time for me to confess that I voted for Michael Gorman. Serves me right for failing to engage my brain before filling out my ALA ballot in, oh, five seconds. I saw his name, thought "gee, I heard him give a decent lecture eight or so years ago," and dutifully checked his name. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Now that I've gotten that off of my chest, I'll point out that many librarians are posting responses to Gorman's inane comments, the latest of which appeared in the WSJ on 11/1. One of the funnier I've seen is at Free Range Librarian, not least for its lovely title. Any librarian with a blog should put up at least one anti-Gorman post in the hope that the combined weight of all of these posts will offset some of the damage wrought by his high-profile foot-shooting.